Levois Vineyards & Winery
LeVois Vineyards produces artisanal wines. Their terraced Bradford Mountain vineyard in Dry Creek Valley produces exceptional fruit – small production award-winning wines – Zinfandel, Cabernet and a late harvest Zinfandel.
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Dashe Cellars -Dry Creek
n 1996, the husband and wife winemaking team of Michael and Anne Dashe founded Dashe Cellars. Focused on crafting exceptional single-vineyard wines, Dashe Cellars blends the two winemaker’s combined 40-plus years of experience at such noted wineries as Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château La Dominique, Ridge Vineyards, Cloudy Bay, Far Niente, Chappellet, and Schramsberg Wine Cellars. Drawing on this wealth of experience, the Dashes create vineyard-focused wines that capture the complexity and character of top vineyards throughout Sonoma County and beyond. Winery & Tasting Room: 55 4th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Dreyer Sonoma
The Dreyer family has been involved in California agriculture since the 1950’s, and has been making wine since 1980. Jonathan Dreyer has worked in the family business from the vineyards to the cellar.
Robledo Family Winery
This is a real family business and everyone was friendly and helpful, telling you stories about the winery and the wines, they even took our picture behind the bar. The tasting area has tons of room with tables you can sit at, the tasting bar and even an outside tasting area so even though there were other people there you felt like you were getting a private tasting.
Hop Kiln Winery
A must visit winery along the russian river wine road, the quality of wines and ambiance cant be beat. They also have a variety of condiments and sauces that are pretty tasty too.
Watkins Family Winery
The beautiful terraces of Nuns Cliff Vineyard arise at 1400 feet, high above the cliffs overlooking Nuns Canyon. The west facing vineyard slopes are planted in red volcanic soils, considered by many winemakers to be the best Cabernet Sauvignon ground on the Mayacamas Mountain Range dividing Sonoma Valley and Napa Valley. Blue/black in the glass, this wine exhales a heady perfume of juicy black fruits, toffee, and spicy notes of peppercorn and sage.
Derbes Wines
Winemaker Cécile Lemerle-Derbès grew up in the vineyards of the Champagne region, where she was and still is involved in the growing of grapes. Cécile and her husband Billy, an Aerospace Engineer, started Derbès Wines in 2001
Mill Creek Vineyards & Winery
I walked into this place for a tasting, and they handed me a pulled-pork slider that blew my mind. No matter what wine I was handed after that was going to be the best I'd tasted all day.
That's cheating. Down and dirty, but it was so wonderful I'm not going to complain!
Quaking Hills Winery
Quaking Hills Winery is owned and operated by Joanne and Keith Collard. It is situated near the Russian River on Hidden Spring Vineyard (“HSV”). The 36 acre site is in the heart of the Alexander Valley in northern Sonoma County. The rolling hills of the property make for perfect hillside growing conditions. The winery uses only fruit from HSV for all of its wines.
Tin Barn Vineyards
The pourer is very knowledgable and passionate about their wines. I give the wine maker a lot of credit for his focus on single vineyard, single varietal wines. I thought all the wines were well made. The place is located in like an office facility / storage unit looking type building, so if you're looking for like rolling hills with neat rows of grape bushes, you have come to the wrong place. (Shouldn't be a dealbreaker necessarily in my opinion-- but I feel it's worth noting.) They also do a little tour of their facility where they show you some of the machines that are used to make the wine.
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